Cut…and cut some more and then cut even more.

Republicans in the CA assembly might craw out from under their desks and uphold the Democrats as they try to override his vetoes. I did vote for Arnie in the recall, just for the scenario above, guess I got fooled.

And Spiral, who gives a rat’s patatooie about Arnie and Prop 8? I voted YES on 8, and I’ll vote for the recall of any Supreme court justice that overrules me twice, and I could care less about gay marriage or for that matter what the Governator thinks of the will of the people.

California’s Constitution requires a 2/3rds vote of both houses of the legislature to pass a budget plan.

California’s electorate is tilted heavily to the Left.

In 1992, California voted for Clinton over Bush by 13 points while nationwide Clinton won by 5.5 points. In 1996, Clinton beat Dole in California by 13 points while winning nationwide by 8.5 points.

In 2000, it got much worse. Nationwide, Gore won the popular vote by 0.5 points (even as Bush narrowly won the electorate vote). But in California Gore beat Bush by 11 points. In 2004, Bush beat Kerry nationwide by 2.5 points but lost California by 10. And three weeks ago Obama won nationwide by about 7 points but won California by about 24 points.

So, the legislature is lopsidedly Democrat controlled. And has been for decades (except for 1995-1996 when the GOP had a 41-39 seat majority in the state assembly, but within that 41 seat caucus they had several Republicans who worked with the Democrats to maintain Democrat control for about a year.)

It’s just very difficult to run California in a conservative way when the voters are so far to the Left.

That said, Arnold should not be doing what he is doing now: encourging the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8. That’s unconscionable.

He could certainly never get me to vote for him for Senate, even against Boxer.

Besides, I strongly feel that the voters of CA deserve Barbara Boxer (and so much worse!).

-exits

My story was that it was invented in the 50s as the place to tell the Soviets we were keeping our nukes as a giant head fake.

We need to start challenging these folks and both House Races too.

As crazy as it sounds, the state of South Dakota has that problem too. It is a very red state, on a state government level, but when it comes to Federal office, they can never seem to put up candidates who can win except on a rare exception.

It has baffled me the entire time I have lived here. I wish I had a better answer, but it is the reality.

Somebody who is smarter than me with these things needs to figure this out.

We need to target Byron Dorgan. It’s not expensive to run ads in ND.

Just like when he ran for Governor all on his own, I voted for the Libertarian as a protest. Probably do the same thing if he gets the nomination for Senate.

I won’t vote for Boxer, and I won’t vote for Arnie, I just won’t vote in that election if it comes to a choice of those two.

Personally I’d love to see HH in the Senate, but if I had to I’d vote for ANY GOP candidate to rid us of the Wicked Witch of the West.

I won’t vote for Boxer, and I won’t vote for Arnie, I just won’t vote in that election if it comes to a choice of those two.

I don’t think McCain’s ego will let him retire and I’m not convinced Shadegg wants to stay in DC for any reason.

Are we underestimating his chances?

It’s little moves like this, all ramifications of the Dems being way too overconfident, that when all added together could help turn things around.

Shuler running makes it likely he’d lose to Burr (esp. if things are going to get as bad as I expect them to), and that in turn makes it likely we could retake Shuler’s House seat.

We need to encourage every “Blue Dog” Democrat we can to run for Senate against our sitting GOP Senators.

It’ll be the quickest way to render them politically irrelevant, while simultaneously making it much easier for us to take back their House seats. [grin]